Early life

Fenn was born Sheryl Ann Fenn in Detroit, Michigan. She comes from a family of musicians: her mother is keyboard player Arlene Quatro, her aunt is singer Suzi Quatro, her grandfather Art Quatro was a jazz musician, and her father, Leo Fenn, managed such rock bands as Suzi Quatro's The Pleasure Seekers, Alice Cooper, and The Billion Dollar Babies. Fenn is of Italian and Hungarian descent on her mother's side and of Irish and French descent on her father's. She was raised Catholic. Fenn frequently traveled with her mother and two older brothers before the family settled in Los Angeles when she was 17. She did not want to start with a new school again, and soon enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

1991, role: actress
, character name: Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Tv

Famous quotes by Sherilyn Fenn:

"After I had my son, I found life much funnier and brighter"

"It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger."

"I don't want my body to look like a man's. I just want to tone my body."

"I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with."

"At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary."

"Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project."

"I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered."

"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome."

"Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot."

"I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday."

"I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening."

"I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful."

"I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with."

"The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense."

"I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes."

"Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package."

"It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic."

"Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do."

"Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man."

"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."

Early life

Fenn was born Sheryl Ann Fenn in Detroit, Michigan. She comes from a family of musicians: her mother is keyboard player Arlene Quatro, her aunt is singer Suzi Quatro, her grandfather Art Quatro was a jazz musician, and her father, Leo Fenn, managed such rock bands as Suzi Quatro's The Pleasure Seekers, Alice Cooper, and The Billion Dollar Babies. Fenn is of Italian and Hungarian descent on her mother's side and of Irish and French descent on her father's. She was raised Catholic. Fenn frequently traveled with her mother and two older brothers before the family settled in Los Angeles when she was 17. She did not want to start with a new school again, and soon enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

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